links - web development

"Web Development" is the code (html and css); the pages, images, videos, and other files; the methods we use to put it all together.

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Basics

Cheatsheets for colors, fonts, usability, SEO, browser compatiblity http://spyrestudios.com/mega-collection-of-cheatsheets-for-designer-developers/#colorfontsseo Links to useful online cheatsheets and references, with screenshots. Spyre Studios : June 2010
Glossary of web tech http://www.sitepoint.com/glossary.php?q=A useful summaries sitepoint : 2006
How web pages work http://www.howstuffworks.com/web-page.htm Basic HTML Formatting Tags, Getting Your Page Online, Promoting Your Site, Lots More Information, Compare Prices for Web Pages Marshall Brain : 2006
SitePoint http://www.sitepoint.com/ coding - from html to java SitePoint : 2006
The Open Web http://www.drumbeat.org/open-web The open web is freedom, decentralization and collaboration. DrumBeat : 2010
Things you should know as a web developer - HTML Basics and Web Standards Concepts http://interact.webstandards.org/curriculum/front-end-development/web-design-1?modules Course syllabus for HTML Basics and Web Standards WaSP Interact : 2010
Things you should know as a web developer - The Internet http://interact.webstandards.org/curriculum/foundation/internet-fundamentals?comp Course syllabus for Internet Fundamentals WaSP Interact : 2010
Things you should know as a web developer - Web Development 101 http://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/p2pu/courses/webdev101 Course syllabus for Web Development Mozilla : 2010
Web Words and Concepts http://www.webmonkey.com/glossary/ What is a "pixel"? What does "protocol" mean? Useful explanations. WebMonkey : 2010
WebMonkey http://webmonkey.com/ how-tos about everything related to web WebMonkey : 2010

24 Ways to Impress Your Friends http://24ways.org/ Good articles on web development: CSS, jQuery, building websites, and more. Somewhat advanced 24 Ways : 2010
Building Scalable Websites http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/26/1357210&from=rss "the closest thing available to a nuts-and-bolts look at managing the technical aspects of doing a Web-based startup." "nearly all of the code snippets are in PHP. MySQL 4.1 is the basis for most of the database-centered material." "Technically, I think that Building Scalable Web Sites is 100%." "Chapter four is the most readable introduction to internationalization, localization, and Unicode that I've seen up to this point." (Brian Donovan on slashdot) "Chapter five ("Data Integrity and Security") is available as a PDF on the O'Reilly catalog page for the book and Henderson has also put some articles online (all PDFs, not much overlap with the material in BSWS) at his website." Cal Henderson : 2006
Do Web Technologies Need a Complete Overhaul? http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=685098 Very interesting, long, discussion about html/css/js, the big picture, the techie details, the pros and the cons. For leisurely reading. Sitepoint forum : June 2010
DocType Q and A http://doctype.com/ "a free question and answer site for web designers. You can ask questions about CSS, HTML, web design and email design." Also WordPress, CMSs, JQuery, MySQL, ... DocTYPe : 2010
How web servers work http://computer.howstuffworks.com/web-server.htm The Basic Process, Behind the Scenes, The Internet, Clients and Servers, IP Addresses, Domain Names, Name Servers, Ports, Protocols, Putting It All Together, Security, More Marshall Brain : 2006
If Architects Had to Work like Web Designers http://www.digitalsurvivors.com/archives/000455.php Funny, and also too true: "Please design and build me a house. I am not quite sure of what I need, so you should use your discretion. My house should have somewhere between two and forty-five bedrooms. ... " and like that! Unknown : January 2002
Netcraft site surveys http://www.netcraft.com lots of good info; network security, net research Netcraft : 2006
Progressive Disclosure: Presenting Information On A Need To Know Basis http://www.vanseodesign.com/web-design/progressive-discolosure/ "... find the balance between all the things you want to include without overwhelming the space and your visitors. Most people use at most 20% of any given complex system. The problem is everyone uses a different 20%. What’s a designer to do?" Steven Bradley - VanSEODesign.com : June 2010
The Good-Quick-Cheap Project Rule http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2010/06/21/the-good-quick-cheap-project-rule/ "There are 3 ideal outcomes when delivering a web project or any other type of project ... It's good, It's delivered quickly, It's cheap." We get two, never three. SitePoint.com : June 2010
Top ten rules for designing for low bandwidth http://www.aptivate.org/webguidelines/TopTen.html An excellent site. These are good tips for making any website, low bandwidth or high! Aptivate : July 2009
Web Design from Scratch http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/ Excellent organised introduction to web design: site architecture, html, css, javascript, usability, design, ... Ben Hunt : 2006
Web-safe font cheatsheet - intro http://www.mightymeta.co.uk/introducing-the-web-safe-font-cheat-sheet/ The methods for displaying dfferent fonts on your web page; why boring old web-safe fonts are good. MightyMeta : April 2010
Web-safe font cheatsheet - version 2 http://www.mightymeta.co.uk/web-safe-font-cheat-sheet-v-2-including-google-font-api/ Version 2 of the Web-safe Font Cheatsheat, with info about the Google API for getting pretty fonts on your web pages. MightyMeta : June 2010
Website Redesign: Big Bang, Gradual or Evolutionary Approach? http://www.smileycat.com/miaow/archives/001973.php "Each approach has advantages and disadvantages. Let's consider them in reference to a large, content-rich website." Tobias Wright - SmileyCat : June 2010
Website Roadblocks http://www.zurb.com/article/377/6-tips-for-avoiding-website-roadblocks "How do you push your website projects forward without getting stuck along the way? We've discussed different personality types and soliciting feedback, but how do we deal with the bigger issues designers face when launching a web project?" Zurb.com : June 2010

Video tutorials

Seven Must-See Videos and Presentations for Web App Developers http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/07/17/seven-must-see-videos-and-presentatio ns-for-web-app-developers/ "seven videos that we think would be of great interest to web app developers in particular, with less focus on design and standards. ... a little more technically heavy than ones we’ve featured in the past ..." SitePoint : 2010
SitePoint Video tutorials and how-tos http://www.sitepoint.com/videos/ "SitePoint's video tutorials cover a wide range of topics, including CSS, Ajax, Photoshop, Ruby, PHP, and more ... " View online, or buy to download. SitePoint : 2010
Web development videos http://css-tricks.com/video-screencasts/ Screencasts on many subjects. CSS Tricks : 2008

backup

How to make remote offsite backups http://www.mozdex.com/offsite-webserver-backup/ This requires knowledge of unix commands and shell scripts. JD Rumm - MozDex : 2009

building for mobiles

How to make your website mobile compatible http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/how-to-make-your-website-mobile-compatible-714023 "The popularity of smartphones and cheaper data packages from network providers have driven a sharp rise in mobile web usage, which is not just reserved for the latest and greatest smartphones. ... mobile websites are built using existing web technologies. " Ste Brennan - Computerlove : September 2010

jobs

Are we designers or developers? http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200708/are_we_designers_or_developers/ "I still find it hard to know what to answer when someone asks me what I do for a living. Am I a Web designer? A Web developer? A Web programmer? All of them? Neither? It really is a difficult question to give a simple answer to." Good discussion and definitions in comments. "HTML and CSS deserve as much respect as programming, especially as so many programmers are so crap at them." Roger Johannson - 456 Berea St. : August 2007
Should web designers do code? http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2010/06/15/should-web-designers-code-the-poll-results/ Results of a poll, with good comments. "HTML and CSS is tougher than you expect ... While HTML and CSS are not programming languages, they have subtle complexities that are not appreciated until you have considerable development experience. " Sitepoint : June 2010
Who's a "Front-End" developer? http://www.mail-archive.com/wsg@webstandardsgroup.org/msg29554.html "what's the minimum set of skills we think someone should have to call themselves a web developer?" Good discussion WSG mail list : July 2007

microformats

Rich snippets: testing tool improvements, breacrumbs, and events http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/09/rich-snippets-testing-tool-improvements.html Special markup using microdata, microformats, or RDFa, to make site info more useful in Google search. Google : September 2010

newsfeeds

RSS 2.0 Specification http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss "What is RSS?, Sample files, About this document, Required channel elements, Optional channel elements, Elements of <item>, Comments, Extending RSS, Roadmap Dave Winer, Berkman Center : jan 2005

testing - info

Testing your Website: Accessibility http://www.sitepoint.com/article/ultimate-testing-checklist/2 Use text-only and voice browsers; proofread all content; have users try the site; check navigation, site without css. Shirley Kaiser : July 2006
Testing your Website: General http://www.sitepoint.com/article/ultimate-testing-checklist Test html, css, different browsers, different monitors, links, scripts, downloads, online applications Shirley Kaiser : July 2006
Website Testing: Conquering Cross-browser, Cross-platform Woes http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2005/08/14/csstesting/ Considerations, resources, and great links for cross-browser testing Shirley E. Kaiser : August 2005

testing - tools

Cross-browser web captures http://www.browsershots.com/ See how your website looks in many browsers; free. BrowserShots : 2009
Run IE6, IE7, and IE8 on the Same Machine Using Windows 7 XP Mode http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/ie6-ie7-ie8-win7-xp-mode Windows 7 has a "Virtual PC" app so you can run different versions of MeSsIE to check your web pages. SitePoint : nov 2009
Speed Test http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/ Analyzes the url you give them for loading time; gives suggestions for improving. This is an excellent service, really opens our eyes about the impact of images and coding on page download time. WebsiteOptimization.com : 2009
Test Everything http://tester.jonasjohn.de/ "100+ tools in one." Combines access to many online testing sites all on one page. Very nice. Jonas John : 2009

tools - building

10 Big Time-Saving Tools for Web Designers [and Developers!] http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2010/02/02/10-big-time-saving-tools-for-web-designers/ "Become more productive by letting the computers do the boring bits." SpriteMe, YUI Grid Building, Accessify Forms and Tables, Gradient image makers, Typography Preview, CSS check with XRAY, CleanCSS. Meitar Moscovitz - Sitepoint : February 2010
13 Firefox Add-ons for Web Development http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/07/21/13-firefox-add-ons-for-web-development/ "There are a lot of really handy tools for FTPing, coding, checking your work and so on." Meitar Moscovitz - Sitepoint : July 2009
19 Firefox Add-ons for Designers [and Developers!] http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/08/17/firefox-add-ons-for-designers/ "Thanks to the enormous Firefox add-on development community, your web browser can do almost everything for you." Add-ons focused towards colors, sizes etc. Very useful. Meitar Moscovitz - Sitepoint : August 2009

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